Feats

Feats are features that grant a character unique improvements. All classes select one feat at class levels 4, 8, and 12. Fighters select an additional feat at level 6; Rogues select an additional feat at level 10.

See D&D 5e feat changes for an overview of difference between feats in 5e D&D and Baldur's Gate 3.

List of all feats

Name	Description
Ability Improvement	Increase one ability score by 2, or two ability scores by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
Actor	Actor Your Charisma ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. You gain expertise in  Deception and  Performance.
Alert	Alert You gain a +5 bonus to initiative and can't be  Surprised.
Athlete	Your Strength or Dexterity ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
	Athlete: Standing Up When you are  Prone, standing up uses significantly less movement. Your  Jump distance also increases by 50%.
Charger	Charger: Weapon Attack Charge forward and slam your weapon into the first enemy in your way without provoking Opportunity Attacks.
	Charger: Shove Charge forward and  Shove the first enemy in your way without provoking Opportunity Attacks. Shove distance depends on your Strength and the target's weight.
Crossbow Expert	Crossbow Expert: Point-Blank When you make crossbow attacks within melee range, the attack rolls do not have  Disadvantage.
	Crossbow Expert: Wounding Your  Piercing Shot also inflicts  Gaping Wounds for twice as long.
Defensive Duellist	Defensive Duellist When you are attacked with a melee attack while wielding a Finesse weapon you are proficient in, you can use a  Reaction to increase your  Armour Class by your proficiency bonus, possibly causing the attack to miss.
	Notes
	Requires Dexterity to be at least 13.
Dual Wielder	Dual Wielder You can use Two-Weapon Fighting even if your weapons aren't Light. You cannot dual-wield Two-Handed weapons.
	Dual Wielder: Bonus Armour Class You have a +1 bonus to  Armour Class while wielding a melee weapon in each hand.
Dungeon Delver	Dungeon Delver: Perception You gain  Advantage on Perception checks made to detect hidden objects and on saving throws made to avoid or resist traps.
	Dungeon Delver: Resist Traps You gain resistance to the damage dealt by traps.
Durable	Durable Your Constitution ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Regain full hit points every time you take a short rest.
Elemental Adept	Your spells and attacks ignore resistance to a damage type of your choice. In addition, when you deal that type of damage with a spell, you cannot roll a 1. The available passive features are:  Elemental Adept: Acid  Elemental Adept: Cold  Elemental Adept: Lightning  Elemental Adept: Fire  Elemental Adept: Thunder
Great Weapon Master	Great Weapon Master: Bonus Attack When an attack with a melee weapon lands a critical hit or kills a creature, you can make another melee weapon attack as a  Bonus Action that turn.
	Great Weapon Master: All In When attacking with a Two-Handed or Versatile melee weapon (in both hands) that you are proficient with, attack rolls take a -5 penalty, but their damage increases by 10.
Heavily Armoured	Heavily Armoured Your Strength ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Gain proficiency with  Heavy armour.
	Notes
	Requires  Medium armour proficiency.
Heavy Armour Master	Heavy Armour Master Your Strength ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Incoming damage from non-magical attacks also decreases by 3 while you're wearing heavy armour.
	Notes
	Requires  Heavy armour proficiency.
Lightly Armoured	Your Strength or Dexterity ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
	Lightly Armoured Gain proficiency with  Light armour.
Lucky	You gain 3  Luck Points that recharge after a long rest.
	Lucky You can use a Luck Point to gain  Advantage on your next ability check.
	Lucky You can use a Luck Point to gain  Advantage on your next attack roll or saving throw, or to make an enemy reroll their attack roll.
Mage Slayer	Mage Slayer: Saving Throw Advantage When a creature casts a spell within melee range of you, you have  Advantage on any saving throws against it.
	Mage Slayer: Attack Caster You can use a  Reaction to immediately make an attack against the caster if it casts a spell within 1.5 m (5 ft) of you.
	Mage Slayer: Break Concentration Enemies you hit have  Disadvantage when making saving throws to maintain their  Concentration.
Magic Initiate: Bard	Magic Initiate: Bard Learn 2 Cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the Bard spell list. You can cast the 1st-level Spell once per long rest. Your spellcasting ability for all three spells is Charisma.
Magic Initiate: Cleric	Magic Initiate: Cleric Learn 2 Cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the Cleric spell list. You can cast the 1st-level Spell once per long rest. Your spellcasting ability for all three spells is Wisdom.
	Bugs
	While wearing medium armour, the bonus to  Armour Class you can gain from your Dexterity modifier also becomes +3 instead of +2. This AC bonus increase is not listed in-game, and can also be gained by taking the Medium Armour Master feat.
Magic Initiate: Druid	Magic Initiate: Druid Learn 2 Cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the Druid spell list. You can cast the 1st-level Spell once per long rest. Your spellcasting ability for all three spells is Wisdom.
Magic Initiate: Sorcerer	Magic Initiate: Sorcerer Learn 2 Cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the Sorcerer spell list. You can cast the 1st-level Spell once per long rest. Your spellcasting ability for all three spells is Charisma.
	Bugs
	If the  Shield spell is provided by this feat, then it uses spell slots like an ordinary spell without a once-per-long-rest restriction. This means that it cannot be used at all by a character with no spell slots.
Magic Initiate: Warlock	Magic Initiate: Warlock Learn 2 Cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the Warlock spell list. You can cast the 1st-level Spell once per long rest. Your spellcasting ability for all three spells is Charisma.
Magic Initiate: Wizard	Magic Initiate: Wizard Learn 2 Cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the Wizard spell list. You can cast the 1st-level Spell once per long rest. Your spellcasting ability for all three spells is Intelligence.
	Bugs
	If the  Shield spell is provided by this feat, then it uses spell slots like an ordinary spell without a once-per-long-rest restriction. This means that it cannot be used at all by a character with no spell slots.
Martial Adept	Martial Adept Learn two Manoeuvres from the Battle Master archetype and receive 1 (additional) Superiority Die to fuel them. You regain expended Superiority Dice after a short or long rest.
Medium Armour Master	Medium Armour Master When you wear medium armour, it doesn't impose  Disadvantage on Stealth checks. The bonus to  Armour Class you can gain from your Dexterity modifier also becomes +3 instead of +2.
	Notes
	Requires  Medium armour Proficiency.
Mobile	Mobile Your movement speed increases by 3 m (10 ft).
	Mobile: Evade Difficult Terrain When you use the  Dash action, Difficult Terrain doesn't slow you down.
	Mobile: Evade Opportunity Attack If you move after making a melee attack, you don't provoke an Opportunity Attack from that target.
Moderately Armoured	Your Strength or Dexterity ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
	Moderately Armoured Gain proficiency with  Medium armour and  Shields.
	Notes
	Requires  Light armour proficiency.
Performer	Performer Your Charisma ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Gain  Instruments proficiency.
Polearm Master	Polearm Master: Bonus Attack When attacking with a  Glaive,  Halberd,  Pike,  Quarterstaff, or  Spear, you can use a  Bonus Action to attack with the butt of your weapon.
	Polearm Master: Opportunity Attack You can also make an Opportunity Attack when a target comes within range.
Resilient	You increase an ability score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Gain proficiency in that ability's saving throws. The available passive features are:  Resilient: Strength  Resilient: Dexterity  Resilient: Constitution  Resilient: Intelligence  Resilient: Wisdom  Resilient: Charisma
Ritual Caster	Ritual Caster: Free Spells You learn two  Ritual spells of your choice.
	Notes
	The available spells are:  Speak with Dead  Find Familiar  Longstrider  Enhance Leap  Disguise Self  Speak with Animals The version of  Find Familiar granted by this passive has a separate once per short rest cooldown not shared with the spellbook version. Knowing both versions of Find Familiar will allow a caster to summon multiple familiars per short rest, though they are still limited to one familiar active at a time.
Savage Attacker	Savage Attacker When making melee weapon attacks, you roll your damage dice twice and use the highest result.
Sentinel	Sentinel: Vengeance When an enemy in melee range attacks an ally, you can use a  Reaction to make a weapon attack against that enemy. Target ally must not have the Sentinel feat.
	Sentinel: Snare When you hit a creature with an Opportunity Attack, it can no longer move for the rest of its turn.
	Sentinel: Opportunity Advantage You gain  Advantage on Opportunity Attacks.
Sharpshooter	Sharpshooter: Low Ground Your ranged weapon attacks are not penalized for High Ground Rules.
	Sharpshooter: All In Ranged weapon attacks with weapons you are proficient with have a -5 penalty to their attack roll, but deal an additional 10 damage.
Shield Master	Shield Master Gain a +2 bonus to  Dexterity Saving Throw when wielding a shield.
	Shield Master: Block If a spell forces you to make a  Dexterity Saving Throw, you can use your  Reaction to shield yourself and diminish the effect's damage. On a failed save, you only take half damage. On a successful save, you don't take any damage, even if you normally would.
Skilled	Skilled You gain proficiency in 3 skills of your choice.
Spell Sniper	Spell Sniper You learn a cantrip, and the number you need to roll a critical hit while attacking with a spell is reduced by 1. This effect can stack.
	Notes
	The available cantrips are:  Bone Chill  Eldritch Blast  Fire Bolt  Ray of Frost  Shocking Grasp  Thorn Whip These cantrips use the character's Spellcasting Ability. For example, if a Cleric chooses Eldritch Blast with this feat, they use their Wisdom modifier and not their Charisma modifier. All available cantrips are Spell Attacks and use attack rolls.
Tavern Brawler	Your Strength or Constitution ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
	Tavern Brawler When you make an unarmed attack, use an improvised weapon, or throw something, your strength modifier is added twice to the damage and attack roll.
Tough	Tough Hit point maximum increased by 2 for each level.
War Caster	War Caster: Concentration You gain  Advantage on saving throws to maintain  Concentration on a spell.
	War Caster: Opportunity Spell You can also use a  Reaction to cast  Shocking Grasp at a target moving out of melee range.
Weapon Master	Your Strength or Dexterity ability score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
	Weapon Master Gain proficiency with four weapon types of your choice.